[Cabs] Fw: [nfbwnews] FW: Sony and WGBH Partner on Delivering Descriptive Video Service on DVDs

[Nehemiah Hall]

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Subject: [nfbwnews] FW: Sony and WGBH Partner on Delivering Descriptive 
Video Service on DVDs


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> From: dvsconsumers at mail4.wgbh.org on behalf of Mary Watkins
> Sent: Thu 9/3/2009 10:30 AM
> To: dvsconsumers
> Subject: Sony and WGBH Partner on Delivering Descriptive Video Service on 
> DVDs
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> Great news to share!
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> SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT PARTNERS WITH WGBH MEDIA ACCESS GROUP TO 
> DELIVER DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO SERVICE ON HOME VIDEO TITLES
>
> Culver City, Calif. (Sept 3, 2009) - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will 
> partner with WGBH Media Access Group to release select film titles on DVD 
> with Descriptive Video Service(r), or DVS(r) as an optional feature for 
> audiences who are blind or have low vision.  Descriptive Video Service 
> provides carefully crafted narration of key visual elements inserted into 
> natural pauses in dialogue. Key visual elements are those which viewers 
> with vision loss would ordinarily miss and include actions, costumes, 
> gestures, facial expressions, scene changes and onscreen text. On DVD and 
> Blu-ray(tm), the DVS track is an Audio option, listed alongside 
> alternative languages, where the menu selection will read "English Audio 
> Descriptive Service."
>
> The ability to enjoy movies with descriptive narration on DVD and Blu-ray 
> Disc(tm) is extremely important to the nation's 12 million movie fans with 
> vision loss, and is the single most requested service of the Media Access 
> Group. Among the first Sony Pictures Home Entertainment titles to be 
> released with the description feature are The Taking of Pelham 123, The 
> Ugly Truth, Julie & Julia and District 9.
>
> Sony Pictures has been a leader over the last decade in providing 
> descriptive audio for theatrical releases in movie theaters equipped with 
> WGBH's Motion Picture Access, or MoPix(r) systems. Beginning in the fall 
> of 2009, all Sony Pictures theatrical releases with descriptive audio will 
> also include the feature when they arrive on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
>
> About The Media Access Group at WGBH
>
> The Media Access Group at WGBH includes The Caption Center, the world's 
> first captioning agency, founded in 1972; Descriptive Video Service (DVS), 
> which has made television, film and video more accessible to blind and 
> visually impaired audiences since 1990; and the Carl and Ruth Shapiro 
> Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM), a research and 
> development entity that builds on the success of WGBH's access service 
> departments to make existing and emerging technologies more accessible. 
> Members of the Media Access Group's collective staff represent the leading 
> resources and experts in their fields.
>
> Additional information about the Media Access Group at WGBH can be found 
> at www.mediaaccessgroupwgbh.org <http:// <http:///> 
> www.mediaaccessgroupwgbh.org/> .
>
> The Media Access Group maintains a list of DVDs with DVS at this page of 
> its site: 
> http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/resources/accessible-dvds.html
>
> Follow the Media Access Group on Facebook: 
> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Media-Access-Group-at-WGBH/91628220291?ref=ts
>
> About Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
>
> Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is a Sony Pictures Entertainment company. 
> SPE is a division of Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of 
> Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. SPHE's global operations encompass motion 
> picture production and distribution; television production and 
> distribution; digital contest creation and distribution; worldwide channel 
> investments; home entertainment acquisition and distribution; operation of 
> studio facilities; development of new entertainment products, services and 
> technologies; and distribution of filmed entertainment in 67 countries. 
> Sony Pictures Entertainment can be found on the World Wide Web at 
> http://www.sonypictures.com <http://www.sonypictures.com/>  <http:// 
> <http:///> www.sonypictures.com/> .
>
> Contacts:
> Jason Allen
> Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
> Jason_allen at spe.sony.com
> 310- 244-3502
>
> Mary Watkins
> Media Access Group at WGBH
> Mary_watkins at wgbh.org
> 617-300-3700
>
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